By Captain Lawrence B. Brennan, U.S. Navy (Ret.) - New Jersey ...

Lawrence B. Brennan NJ-Built Aircraft Carriers Page 13
Lawrence Brennan~NJ-BUILT U.S. FAST AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: Part I
Fig. 14: CV-3-H is a machine cancel (Locy Type 7rtz) dated 27 May 1942 on a Number 10 penalty envelope.
The return address in Figure 14 is Postmaster, San Francisco, California. On the day of
this cancellation, she was at San Diego after returning from refurbishment to the Pacific Fleet in
anticipation of the Battle of Midway (4-6 June 1942). Unable to sail until the 1st of June, she
was too late for Midway. The postmark, in use 1941-44, is rated “B” or limited edition in the
Postmark Catalog, p. S-11.
Fig. 15: CV-3-I is a rubber stamp hand cancels: Locy Types 2(n) (four bar black hand cancel on
postage stamp), 9v (red double circle "registered" handstamp in upper left corner) and 9efw (black
double circle “"M.O.B.”, or "Money Order Business" handstamp in lower left corner), dated 24
July 1946 on a Number 6 envelope.
On this her last day of postal service (24 June 1946), SARATOGA was at Bikini Atoll
where she would be used as a primary target ship in the above-ground atom bomb tests. Type 9
postmarks are generally double circle small hand stamps used for registry, money order, parcel post,
etc. Often Navy postal clerks refer to them as “All Purpose cancels” or “AP chops.” The
postmarks, in use during 1945-46, are rated “B” or limited edition in the Postmark Catalog, p. S-11.
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NJPH
Whole No. 171 August 2008
Published by the New Jersey Postal History Society
Originally published in the pages of NJPH